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...bootleg arms to a belligerent is to ship them through a partisan or unscrupulous middleman nation. Last week President Cardenas of Mexico proudly announced that, so far, from Mexico to Spain's Reds had gone $1,465,658 worth of war material...
...four eastern counties of his State since 1931 last week engaged for the first time the active attention of Pennsylvania's Governor since 1935, rich George H. Earle. In khaki overalls and a head-lamped miner's cap, Governor Earle inspected a few of the thousands of bootleg holes and abandoned mines from which 20,000 men and boys are openly stealing some $32,000,000 worth of anthracite coal per year from company-owned lands. In Pottsville, Mahanoy City and Shamokin he conferred with citizens and law officers whose frank acquiescence has made the gigantic theft possible...
...Manhattan last week three Pennsylvania truck drivers were fined $25 each for bringing bootleg coal into the city. There legitimate dealers, whom 'leggers undersell by $2 per ton, have prodded police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
...Fortnight ago a grand jury indicted them for dealing in coal stolen from the Pennsylvania property of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and trucked into New York. The truck drivers were named as witnesses. Last week the grand jury followed up its indictment by recommending immediate war on the bootleg coal business by which more than 10,000 jobless Pennsylvania anthracite miners have kept themselves alive during Depression and which has lost legitimate coal dealers in the East $32,000,000 a year (TIME, July 13). Stiffly the grand jury observed...
Hailed as a new lightweight champion, Ambers embraced his onetime employer, capered around his dressing room in a cardboard crown, urged his manager to get him a match with Welterweight Champion Barney Ross. Product of a bootleg boxing circuit which flourished in upstate New York when promoters were too poor or too parsimonious to pay for licenses, Ambers is 22, untemperamental, attached to numerous other D'Ambrosios by those ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often...